Jesmyn Ward Quotes
People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.
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People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.
